Suffragists watch as Alice Paul sews stars onto banner. The “story of textiles is the story of human ingenuity,” wrote Virginia Postrel, author of “The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the ...

According to one estimate, 66 percent of post-consumer textile waste ends up in landfills, 19 percent is combusted, and just 15 percent is recycled. Moreover, since the 1960s, the country has seen a ...

The sounds of construction projects are echoing throughout the countries of Central America. Indeed, historic levels of private sector investment and sourcing commitments going into Central America ...

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The "story of textiles is the story of human ingenuity," wrote Virginia Postrel, author of "The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World." We may not notice, but much of our language—and ...

American textile arts and industry today In the early 1980s, the American textile industry left the country for overseas factories in Asia and Latin America. The increased cost of labor and production ...